Plouffe: ObamaCare is going to be awesome… by 2017

posted at 6:31 pm on December 1, 2013 by Erika Johnsen

“This program was designed to be implemented by the states. And in most of the states that are running their exchanges it’s going quite well,” Plouffe told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “You talked about Medicaid expansion. I think it’s just a fact, and it may take until 2017 when this president leaves office, you’re going to see almost every state in this country running their own exchanges eventually and expanding Medicaid. And I think it’ll work really well then.” …

“Let’s fast forward to the State of the Union and the months after that. Health care working better, a lot of people signing up, the economy continuing to strengthen, hopefully no Washington shutdowns,” Plouffe said. “I think the president’s numbers will recover. I think people’s confidence will recover.”

“I think people trust this president,” Plouffe added. “I think there have been numbers all over the place, but I’m confident in a few months from now, those trust numbers are going to come up.”

My, what an adroitly combined set of talking points he’s got there! ObamaCare will be running still more smoothly in the new year, the economy will still be sluggishly crawling out of The Longest Recovery Of Recorded Time, and with any luck, those dastardly, spitefully obstructionist Republicans won’t have triggered any more of those oh-so-loathsome federal shutdowns. Heck, by 2017, even those stubbornly red states will want to get on board with the rampant success of it all, and will have decided to launch their own exchanges as well as expand the expensive, largely ineffective, unmitigated disaster that Medicaid is on its merry way to becoming, yeehaw! …Although somebody should probably alert the Democrats currently turning tail from the president’s signature legislative achievement, no?

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You talked about Medicaid expansion. I think it’s just a fact, and it may take until 2017 when this president leaves office, you’re going to see almost every state in this country running their own exchanges eventually and expanding Medicaid. And I think it’ll work really well then.” …

When Obama’s work is finally done, we’ll all be poor enough to qualify for Medicaid.
Great goal, Goebbels.

I seriously doubt that the law in its current form will be around by then. Either the Democrats will vote with the GOP to repeal it or Obama transforms it with his illegal decrees into something else entirely.

By 2017, anyone who doesn’t agree that ObamaCare is teh awesomest will be declared to have a mental illness and fit for a psychiatric hospital. Or else they just don’t understand its awesomeness and will need to go to an education camp.

I think it’s just a fact, and it may take until 2017 when this president leaves office, you’re going to see almost every state in this country running their own exchanges eventually and expanding Medicaid

Fluff mades a major fail in logic. A fact has to be verifiable/provable as true or false. A future event cannot be a fact.

Fluff is expressing an opinion about a future event, and so far that opinion has no facts to support its assertion.

All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.

I think it’s just a fact, and it may take until 2017 when this president leaves office, you’re going to see almost every state in this country running their own exchanges eventually and expanding Medicaid. And I think it’ll work really well then.” …

The zombie talking point- People just need a few more years to see what a wonderful thing Obamacare is.

They said it when some vague set of benefits kicked in immediately.

They said it when they explained why everything was supposed to be up and running just ahead by the 2014 mid-terms.

And now they’re moving the goal down the road until 2017? I guess so, like Clinton and welfare reform, they can make this into a legacy achievement.

i see the leftist nut-bags over at yahoo! have deigned a bizzare ABC blog hit job on Mitt Romney’s son to be News!

you see, sure he save 4 lives..but he seems to be proud of it…damn Mormon! Of course, dear leader, little barry is filled with self-pride and enmity for those who dissent…but those damn conservatives

r keller on December 1, 2013 at 7:31 PM

For a liberal, it’s a painful realization that they just aren’t that tough. Cowering in your studio across the street with your California Red in one hand screeching OMG on your iPhone is about as brave as they get.
Good on Romney’s son. Fukc the haters.

Got stuck in an endless loop taking me from the front page to the login page.
Hit the chat button.

This is what the chat window said:

[7:47:03 pm]: Thanks for contacting Health Insurance Marketplace Live Chat. Please wait while we connect you to someone who can help.
[7:47:05 pm]: Please be patient while we’re helping other people.
[7:48:42 pm]: Please be patient while we’re helping other people.
[7:50:06 pm]: Please be patient while we’re helping other people.

A liberal that I frequently argue with actually said in his argument for this pile, “I don’t see what the problem is, I mean in ten or fifteen years this will be just about perfect!” Illustrating that there are some levels of idiocy that just can’t be reached. It also proves my theory that the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it’s limits.

A liberal that I frequently argue with actually said in his argument for this pile, “I don’t see what the problem is, I mean in ten or fifteen years this will be just about perfect!” Illustrating that there are some levels of idiocy that just can’t be reached. It also proves my theory that the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it’s limits.

Got stuck in an endless loop taking me from the front page to the login page.
Hit the chat button.

This is what the chat window said:

[7:47:03 pm]: Thanks for contacting Health Insurance Marketplace Live Chat. Please wait while we connect you to someone who can help.
[7:47:05 pm]: Please be patient while we’re helping other people.
[7:48:42 pm]: Please be patient while we’re helping other people.
[7:50:06 pm]: Please be patient while we’re helping other people.

Maybe I’ll leave the chat window open for a while.

22044 on December 1, 2013 at 7:51 PM

We’ll check back in a week or so to see how you’re doing. You have enough food?

A liberal that I frequently argue with actually said in his argument for this pile, “I don’t see what the problem is, I mean in ten or fifteen years this will be just about perfect!” Illustrating that there are some levels of idiocy that just can’t be reached. It also proves my theory that the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it’s limits.

It amazes that so called educated folk utter such total and utter NONSENSE. Expecting the somewhat educated to believe them in toto.
I suppose they expect the Manure Spreading Media will remain viable during the 2014 elections and that the voters will believe all the total irresponsible Bull-Shiite that eminates from this TOTALLY CORRUPT administration.

Plouffe is overlooking the multitued of citizens who are LOOSING TOTALLY their long earned HEALTH CARE INSURANCE in the next THIRTY DAYS!
What say you DAVID? You phucking MORON? Can they wait FIVE YEARS on HOPE and CHANGE and more than a few prayers?

Jeezus, the Lame Stream Media has become worse than Izvestia and Pravda COMBINED!

We haven’t seen [delusional] talking points like that since the days of Khrushchev in the Kremlin…

…what’s for next week? Announcing that 2+2=5?

But actually, he thought as he readjusted the Ministry of Plenty’s figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connection with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connection that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of time you were expected to make them up out of your head.

The biggest problem facing us is finding the disability that will allow us draw a living wage from health care; drugs, alcohol, cancer, education, too many babies, obesity, and having your twenty seventh birthday.

you’re going to see almost every state in this country running their own exchanges eventually and expanding Medicaid.

I wish Plouffe had explained what he sees happening when those millions of new Medicaid sign-ups find out that there are no decent doctors willing to give them an appointment, since taking on a new Medicaid patient is basically an act of charity for doctors now. The government reimburses doctors far less than the actual cost of providing care for Medicaid patients, so the only doctors willing to take on new Medicaid patients are quacks and frauds. In fact, the situation with current Medicaid patients is so bad that multiple studies have shown that a patient has a likelihood of a better medical outcome if they have no medical insurance at all, as opposed to having Medicaid.

Does Plouffe really think low-income people are going to be satisfied with such a sub-standard level of care, after having heard for years now that Obamacare is going to give them “free” medical care? Or is he just assuming that, after years of frustration with the government’s blatant ineptitude, people will be so beaten down and conditioned to accept failure that they won’t even notice?

And remember Botox Pelosi and Mayonaise Head Shultz said the imbeciles will run on Obamacare and take back the House and pick up more seats in the Senate. Somebody please tell me where do they find these Idiots? That’s a mystery to me.

If we get enough states to sign on to legalizing pot, everybody’s problems will be solved. No one will notice the gotv has confiscated all their money for redistribution, the economy has crashed, they don’t have a job, they don’t have a granny, and there are soldiers with strange uniforms walking the streets. This would work a lot better and sooner than what Poofhead is spinning.

So it’s not totally awesome three years after its passage, but it will be four more years from now (during Hillary’s reign)? Well, OK.

As far as low income people being happy with substandard care, you can forget about that. Anyone who has ever spent a day in medicine can tell you that medicaid patients are the most demanding, litigenous group there is.